Top Five Specialty Markets in Boca Raton and Palm Beach

Tired of spending your hard-earned pennies on antique produce, meat that tastes like the styrofoam package it comes wrapped in, fish that's fresh only from the freezer, and canned, bottled, and packaged stuff full of ingredients you can't pronounce and don't want to eat?

If you answered yes, here's the cure for the supermarket blues -- five specialty markets that sell meat, fish, produce, and packaged goods with real, you know, flavor. That's how you can tell them apart.

Who knew?

Bedner's (12033 State Road 7, Boynton Beach; 561-499-3994). Though this family-owned farm has been growing fruits and vegetables on an 80-acre plot at the end of Boynton Beach Boulevard for 60 years, it was only this year that it opened a market for its own and other locally grown produce. All your favorite fruits and vegetables are twice the quality and half the price of the average supermarket crud, and you can even find such rarities (in season) as delicate, golden squash blossoms and fresh wild mushrooms.